Friday, May 04, 2007

MOA Galleria - Dixie Square Mall Montgomery Wards

Funky interior design--'70s shopping mall style! Back in 2001 photographer, Christopher Trice, documented the abandoned remnants of the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois, for his "Dixie Square Mall Series". Here are a couple of the Montgomery Ward images from it that I dug due to the obviously frozen-in-time state of vintage '70s (or '60s?) decor they capture--interior store design still left over from retail days long gone by.

I worked at a Wards in the 80s, and the stockrooms behind the scenes had remenants of the old decoration from the 60s and 70s, frozen in time. I wish I could have gotten in there with a camera before it all got torn out.

I just talked to my dad and apparently my grandparents still have a cabinet stereo system that came from this mall!! And.....thanks to you I have become obsessed reading everything on the net I can find about this place. It's fascinating!